The Holocaust's Jewish Calendars

Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy

Alan Rosen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2019
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253038272 (ISBN)

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Calendars map time, shaping and delineating our experience of it. While the challenges to tracking Jewish conceptions of time during the Holocaust were substantial, Alan Rosen reveals that many took great risks to mark time within that vast upheaval. Rosen inventories and organizes Jewish calendars according to the wartime settings in which they were produced—from Jewish communities to ghettos and concentration camps. The calendars he considers reorient views of Jewish circumstances during the war and show how Jews were committed to fashioning traditional guides to daily life, even in the most extreme conditions. In a separate chapter, moreover, he elucidates how Holocaust-era diaries sometimes served as surrogate Jewish calendars. All in all, Rosen presents a revised idea of time, continuity, the sacred and the mundane, the ordinary and the extraordinary even when death and destruction were the order of the day. Rosen's focus on the Jewish calendar—the ultimate symbol of continuity, as weekday follows weekday and Sabbath follows Sabbath—sheds new light on how Jews maintained connections to their way of conceiving time even within the cauldron of the Holocaust.

Alan Rosen is author of The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder, editor of Literature of the Holocaust, and editor (with Steven T. Katz) of Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives. He lectures regularly at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem and other Holocaust study centers.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Time at the End of a Jewish Century
Part II: Tracking Time in the New Jewish Century: Calendars in Wartime Ghettos
Part III: Concentration Camps, Endless Time, and Jewish Time
Part IV: While in Hiding: Calendar Consciousness on the Edge of Destruction
Part V: At the Top of the Page: Calendar Dates in Holocaust Diaries
Part VI: The Holocaust as a Revolution in Jewish Time: The Lubavitcher Rebbes' Wartime Calendar Book
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Inventory of Wartime Jewish Calendars
Appendix 2: Months of the Jewish Calendar Year, with Their Holidays and Fast Days
Appendix 3: English-Language Rendering of Rabbi Scheiner Calendar
Glossary
Selective Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Jewish Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo	16 color illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9780253038272 / 9780253038272
Zustand	Neuware